To illustrate these oral histories, the Southern Oral History Program has gathered images from photographers across the state. To browse all the photographs included in this collection, scroll down. To see larger images, click on the thumbnail.

Public radio journalist and producer Leda Hartman, a frequent SOHP research team participant, interviews a highway construction engineer for a feature story. Photograph by Rob Amberg.

Poor housing typical of conditions too often present in segregated North Carolina neighborhoods under Jim Crow at mid-century.

Machine scraping the mountain down to grade, Bear Branch, Madison County, NC.
Photograph by Rob Amberg.

Interior of the Little Creek Cafe, Highway 23 and the Laurel River Road, Madison County, NC.
Photograph by Rob Amberg.

Cavenaugh's Restaurant known for its barbeque, fried chicken, fresh vegetables, and grape hull pie, pleads with passersby for help in rebuilding after the flood.
Photograph by Rob Amberg.

A two story house in Rocky Mount, NC was completely swept off the foundation and washed away at a
90 degree angle and 45 degree pitch during flooding after Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
Photograph by Martha Daniel.

A scene from Rocky Mount's Candlewood neighborhood, where Stony Creek, a Tar River tributary, became a torrent.
Photograph by Martha Daniel.

FEMA contractors clear debris, all that remained of a home ruined by the flooding in Duplin County's Northeast community.
Photograph by Rob Amberg.

Howard and Lucille Babbitt, interviewed in Rob Amberg's \"I-26\" project in Madison County, pick apples one last time before their orchard is destroyed to make way for the new I-26 superhighway. Madison County, NC.
Photograph by Rob Amberg.

Storage units all over town were flooded; all contents ruined and piled on the streets. Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Photograph by Martha Daniel.